North Texas Teacher Claims He’s Beg Fired for Beg Gay – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

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• A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
• AFTER PENALIZG GAY TEACHER, MANSFIELD ISD AWARDS HER $100,000, PLANS VOTE TO BAN SEXUAL ORIENTATN DISCRIMATN
• 'PARENTS PLA ALL THE TIME,' SO WHY DID A GAY TEXAS TEACHER GET SPEND THIS TIME?
• CRICS OF TEXAS’ PH FOR A “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL SAY ACKNOWLEDGG LGBTQ PEOPLE ISN’T THE SAME AS TEACHG KIDS ABOUT SEX
• A GAY TEXAS TEACHER IS ON LEAVE AFTER SHE SHOWED STUNTS A PHOTO OF HER WIFE. SHE HAS FEW LEGAL PROTECTNS.
• CG TEXTG POLICY, SCHOOL DISTRICT FIR TEACHER; HE SAYS ’S BEE HE’S GAY
• AFTER PENALIZG GAY TEACHER, MANSFIELD (TEXAS) ISD AWARDS HER $100,000, PLANS TRAG ON LGBTQ ISSU
• NORTH TEXAS TEACHER CLAIMS HE'S BEG FIRED FOR BEG GAY
• IRVG ISD BOARD TO CI FATE OF TEACHER REMOVED FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL
• ‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT

A TEXAS TEACHER FAC LOSG HER JOB AFTER FIGHTG FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL

One faculty sponsor of the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance is facg havg her ntract termated, another is preparg to rign, and a third has been removed om the classroom. Two teachers said that the school’s prcipal asked teachers to take down gay pri flags their classrooms and offic. Several stunts said that eher they or their classmat have been lled homophobic slurs and bullied, and school staff members have failed to tervene.

AFTER PENALIZG GAY TEACHER, MANSFIELD ISD AWARDS HER $100,000, PLANS VOTE TO BAN SEXUAL ORIENTATN DISCRIMATN

Some said they’re disuraged by the Irvg Inpennt School District’s rponse to the ncerns they’ve raised through the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) and school board meetgs, and they feel ls safe at school than they did a year ago. And advot for LGBTQ stunts are alarmed by some parents’ recent mands that schools prohib stunts om anizg Gay-Straight Allianc, llg them “pornographic” and suggtg they would turn children clash at MacArthur, a suburb northwt of Dallas, was not the rult of a new law or policy, or a public prsure mpaign at school board meetgs. “They’re not gog to e out outright and say, ‘Don’t say gay, ’” she said of the school admistratn, “but they’re gog to make as difficult as possible for you to be allowed to exprs yourself or even learn about how you feel, who you are and your inty.

” It all started wh teachers postg small rabow stickers — long a symbol of the gay pri movement — outsi their classrooms to show stunts that they were LGBTQ alli. Acrdg to her personnel file, which Stonecipher shared wh NBC News, the district’s human rourc office believed that Stonecipher had lled MacArthur’s prcipal “homophobic, ” which Stonecipher ni, and that she ma lleagu unfortable when she shared her opn about LGBTQ issu.

“Bee whether the admistrators want to believe or not, there are kids who bully other kids for beg gay.

'PARENTS PLA ALL THE TIME,' SO WHY DID A GAY TEXAS TEACHER GET SPEND THIS TIME?

A feral judge later tossed the 2018, the district faced cricism om LGBTQ anizatns when a teacher reported that the district banned “Love Is Love, ” a ic book created to support survivors of the mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, followg a plat that the book featured “extreme homosexualy.

Durg the meetg, stunts scribed stanc which they’d been lled homophobic slurs and been punched by classmat.

She told the stunts that some of her bt iends were gay or bi, and that she had a transgenr relative. "Aly Harb, MacArthur High School sophomore Acrdg to Victor Fsto, the GSA’s print, the equent meetgs draw jt five to 10 stunts.

CRICS OF TEXAS’ PH FOR A “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL SAY ACKNOWLEDGG LGBTQ PEOPLE ISN’T THE SAME AS TEACHG KIDS ABOUT SEX

’” said a transgenr stunt, a sophomore whom NBC News is not intifyg bee they have not e out to their parents. “It jt felt very targeted towards people I knew, like they were tryg to get teachers or stunts trouble, ” said Aly Harb, a sophomore and GSA member, who was also lled for a meetg wh HR district did not rpond to qutns about the meetgs. When a parent plaed that she was "promotg the homosexual agenda" by showg stunts a picture of her partner, Julie Vazquez, Bailey was abptly placed on leave.

"What happened to me is most gay teachers' worst nightmare, " Bailey said Tuday. "If you are a school district who thks you n bully and shame a gay teacher out of their job, I hope you remember my name, " Bailey said, "and I hope you thk twice. 8, the Mansfield Inpennt School District released a statement on Tuday about s ncern that she “sists that is her right and that is age appropriate for her to have ongog discsn wh elementary-aged stunts about her own sexual orientatn, the sexual orientatn of artists, and their relatnships wh other gay artists.

Geofey Carlisle penned the piece for the webse EdSurge, tailg his own experience the classroom as a gay teacher. Carlisle rells the day one of his stunts asked “Mister, are you gay? “So, ” Carlisle adms, “I rpond, ‘Y, I’m gay.

A GAY TEXAS TEACHER IS ON LEAVE AFTER SHE SHOWED STUNTS A PHOTO OF HER WIFE. SHE HAS FEW LEGAL PROTECTNS.

06 mandat that teachers and stctnal materials “should clu emphasis, provid a factual manner and om a public health perspective, that homosexualy is not a liftyle acceptable to the general public and that homosexual nduct is a crimal offense. Carlisle pots out that homosexual nduct is no longer illegal sce the landmark supreme urt se of Lawrence v. “Durg my years the classroom, ” Carlisle says, “I’ve watched my LGBTQIA+ stunts navigate siar challeng: aquate accs to rtrooms where they feel safe, teachers who allow homophobic and transphobic language their classrooms to go unchecked, and bullyg and harassment om their peers.

CG TEXTG POLICY, SCHOOL DISTRICT FIR TEACHER; HE SAYS ’S BEE HE’S GAY

To Carlisle, the greatt benef of repealg the homophobic law Texas will be for the stunts there.

He rells the stunt’s reactn when admted to beg gay the classroom. Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #life #geofeyrlisle #homophobia stori and more. Last year, Utah stck down a law that prohibed “the advocy of homosexualy” the classroom.

And Tennsee, state lawmakers have sponsored — but ultimately failed to pass — a bill that would have forbidn the discsn of homosexualy elementary and middle schools.

AFTER PENALIZG GAY TEACHER, MANSFIELD (TEXAS) ISD AWARDS HER $100,000, PLANS TRAG ON LGBTQ ISSU

But the district said Bailey had sisted was her right and age appropriate to have “ongog discsns” wh her stunts about her sexual orientatn, as well as that of artists and their relatnships wh other gay ’s attorney, Giana Ortiz, has disputed the district’s acunt. ”Parents have the right to teach their children what they believe, but teachers should also be entsted to e their bt judgment the classroom, she example, she said, if a stunt asks a gay teacher whether she is livg s, the teacher should have the discretn to say, "I don't believe I am" and expla why rponse to a stunt's Owen, general unsel for the Texas Amerin Feratn of Teachers, said ’s typil for teachers, particularly elementary school teachers, to talk about their fai as a way to troduce themselv. ”She said brgg up an artist's sexual orientatn is acceptable if 's relevant to the curriculum, jt as one might discs how Vcent van Gogh's mental state played a role his ’s not improper to brg up an artist’s sexual orientatn an art class as long as the teacher is givg factual rmatn, said Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, a staff attorney wh Lambda Legal, a lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr advocy group.

Patrick said Monday that he will make a “top prry” durg next year’s legislative ssn to pass a bill that mimics a Florida law crics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay. Equaly Texas CEO Rirdo Martez said the LGBTQ advocy nonprof would do everythg s power to stop a Texas versn of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Mansfield ISD North Texas put Bailey on paid admistrative leave at the start of this school year, followg plats om a parent that she was “promotg the ‘homosexual agenda’” by showg her class a photo of her and her now-wife, Julie Vazquez, as well as mentng that the artist Jasper Johns had a partner, another artist Robert Rschenberg, Bailey claims a feral lawsu filed earlier this month. But there’s no exprs protectn for gay, lbian and transgenr employe. Haton’s remark that he is gay me as stunts were preparg for an oral terpretatn tournament his school was to host.

NORTH TEXAS TEACHER CLAIMS HE'S BEG FIRED FOR BEG GAY

Haton remd the stunts that they had seen him move beyond mental health stggl and emerge happily as a gay next day, district human rourc employe qutned him on what elements of his personal life he had shared wh stunts, he said.

IRVG ISD BOARD TO CI FATE OF TEACHER REMOVED FOR GAY PRI SYMBOLS SCHOOL

The district’s handlg of his se mt be dispirg for s gay stunts, he Grapeve-Colleyville matter rells the se of a gay Mansfield teacher who has said she was subject to “a barrage of adverse employment actns and profsnal harms” simply for beg a gay marriage that she ref to a feral lawsu filg, Stacy Bailey suggted she was subjected to scty daily for her gay marriage.

It scrib an work atmosphere characterized by “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” when to gay employe Mansfield Mansfield art teacher was placed on paid admistrative leave for about eight months after a parent plaed that she was phg a gay liftyle to elementary-level ’s lawsu stat she was sgled out after g a mon technique among teachers when they are gettg to know their stunts. When a parent plaed that she was “promotg the homosexual agenda” by showg stunts a picture of her partner, Julie Vazquez, Bailey was abptly placed on leave.

“What happened to me is most gay teachers’ worst nightmare, ” Bailey said Tuday. “If you are a school district who thks you n bully and shame a gay teacher out of their job, I hope you remember my name, ” Bailey said, “and I hope you thk twice. But the teacher is phg back claimg he's beg let go bee he's gay.

‘I’M AAID TO RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM': A GAY TEACHER OF THE YEAR SPEAKS OUT

The 32-year-old says he's stggled wh PTSD, prsn and recently me out as gay. "I was like heck, you guys watched me stggle for years through my own mental health battl, bee that what was, and e out on the other si of that has a happy functng gay man, " he relled.